EP0439897B1 - Dispositif de retournement rotatif pour pièces d'insertion - Google Patents

Dispositif de retournement rotatif pour pièces d'insertion Download PDF

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EP0439897B1
EP0439897B1 EP90309459A EP90309459A EP0439897B1 EP 0439897 B1 EP0439897 B1 EP 0439897B1 EP 90309459 A EP90309459 A EP 90309459A EP 90309459 A EP90309459 A EP 90309459A EP 0439897 B1 EP0439897 B1 EP 0439897B1
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Werner Schweizer
Ari Venetjoki
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
    • A61F13/00—Bandages or dressings; Absorbent pads
    • A61F13/15—Absorbent pads, e.g. sanitary towels, swabs or tampons for external or internal application to the body; Supporting or fastening means therefor; Tampon applicators
    • A61F13/15577—Apparatus or processes for manufacturing
    • A61F13/15764—Transferring, feeding or handling devices; Drives
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G47/00—Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors; Methods employing such devices
    • B65G47/22—Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit by conveyors
    • B65G47/24—Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit by conveyors orientating the articles
    • B65G47/244—Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit by conveyors orientating the articles by turning them about an axis substantially perpendicular to the conveying plane
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G47/00—Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors; Methods employing such devices
    • B65G47/74—Feeding, transfer, or discharging devices of particular kinds or types
    • B65G47/84—Star-shaped wheels or devices having endless travelling belts or chains, the wheels or devices being equipped with article-engaging elements
    • B65G47/846—Star-shaped wheels or wheels equipped with article-engaging elements
    • B65G47/848—Star-shaped wheels or wheels equipped with article-engaging elements the article-engaging elements being suction or magnetic means
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G29/00—Rotary conveyors, e.g. rotating discs, arms, star-wheels or cones

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  • the invention disclosed herein is a machine for rotating articles such as female sanitary pads as they advance along a production line.
  • Oblong sanitary pads are the articles which will be used to demonstrate the structure and function of the new machine, but it should be understood that the machine can be used to turn other articles having any shape also.
  • Sanitary pads are oblong articles composed of a core of fluid absorbent material captured between a front sheet of fluid permeable material and a back sheet of fluid impermeable material.
  • the pads When the pads are discharged from the output of the pad fabricating machine to a conveyor, they are moving along a path that is coincident with or parallel to their long or longitudinal axis. This is not the proper orientation for transferring the pads to a folder or a stacker which groups them for packaging.
  • the back sheet is rather stiff so the pads are folded before being packaged with the soft front sheet areas overlaying and with the stiffer back sheet on the outside. Folding oppositely would result in the stiffer back sheet bunching up or wrinkling which is undesirable.
  • FIG. DE-A-3643187 Another example of a pad turning machine is disclosed in Patent No. DE-A-3643187 and includes the features in the preamble of claim 1.
  • the support members are in the form of scoops, which retain the pads by confining them between lateral walls of the scoops and the cylindrical wall of the machine.
  • the pads are turned through 90° by rotation of the scoops about their respective axes and are then displaced from the scoops parallel to the axis of the drum by plungers mounted adjacent to the support members.
  • the pads are then deposited under gravity on a second conveyor, at the same level and moving at the same speed as the first conveyor that transported them to the pickup station.
  • the present invention provides a device for turning a series of articles such as pads which have lateral and longitudinal axes and are transported along the line of one of the axes to a pad pickup station, after which the pads are turned about an axis perpendicular to said axes while moving to a pad transfer station, said device being positioned proximate to the pickup station and comprising: a rotationally driven power input shaft; a drum member having a base plate fastened to said driven shaft for rotation therewith and a cylindrical wall fastened to the base plate concentric with the axis of the driven shaft; and a plurality of support members arranged within said drum member in uniform, circumferentially spaced relationship; CHARACTERIZED BY further comprising: a vacuum conducting shaft which has an axial bore, journalled on each support member for rotation about an axis which extends radially of the drum member, one end of said vacuum conducting shaft extending radially outside the drum member and another end extending radially inside the drum member; a pad pickup vacuum shoe mounted to the
  • the new pad turner features high speed turning and transfer rates.
  • An important feature of the new machine is that it is adpated for handling pads of different widths and lengths without making any mechanical changes or adjustments in the machine before switching from handling one pad size to another.
  • the new pad turner comprises a rotor in the form of a drum which is closed at one end by a plate.
  • the drum carries several, eight for instance, mechanisms which rotate radially extending axially bored or tubular shafts, associated with each of them, back and forth through a rotational angle of 90°.
  • a curved shoe is mounted to each of the shafts.
  • the shoes have a plurality of perforations which allow a vacuum to be drawn on the curved faces of the shoes.
  • the pad is moving in the direction of its long axis and approaches a shoe with its long dimension or axis coextensive with the long dimension of the pickup shoe in the illustrated embodiment.
  • the turning mechanism for that shoe begins to rotate the bored or hollow vacuum conducting shaft on which the shoe is mounted so as to begin orienting the shoe transversely to the direction in which the drum is rotating.
  • the shoe and the pad thereon are fully rotated through an angle of 90° by the time the pad reaches the transfer or pad release station so the oblong pad continues to move thereafter in the direction of its short axis with its long axis transverse to the direction in which it is moving. Transfer of each pad is then made to a vacuum drum from the drum to a conveyor.
  • FIGURE 8 diagram shows the operating principles of the pad turning system.
  • a rotor comprised of a drum is designated generally by the reference numeral 10.
  • An incoming pad is indicated by the numeral 11. It is moving along a line coincident with one of its axes such as its long axis as indicated by the arrow marked 12.
  • the top side 13 of the pad is faced with a porous non-woven sheet so it is permeable to fluids.
  • the underside 14 of the pad is faced with a fluid impermeable sheet which makes the bottom side stiffer than the top side of the pad.
  • Pad 11A is experiencing rotation about an axis that is perpendicular to the rotational axis of the rotor 10 and another pad marked 11B is fully rotated so that it is now being carried around on the rotor or drum in a direction aligned with the other of its axes, particularly the narrow or short axis of the pad. While the pads are being carried on the drum, they are being held by vacuum applied to the porous side of the pads and the stiffer non-porous face 14 is faced away from the drum. Pad 11B is in the position to be transferred from drum 10 to a vacuum drum which is generally designated by the numeral 15. After the transfer, the non-porous fluid impermeable face 14 of the pad has the vacuum applied to it by the drum 15 and the porous sheet or face 13 is facing upward.
  • FIGURE 9 A typical pad of one style is depicted in FIGURE 9.
  • the top side of the pad has the porous facing sheet 13 and the bottom side 14 has the fluid impervious sheet. And, although the absorbent pad between the sheets is not visible, it is well known to be captured in between the facing sheets 13 and 14. Subsequent to the pads leaving the vacuum drum 15, they may be folded along the lines 16 and 17 in which case the end 18 of the pad would be folded clockwise and the other end 19 would be folded counterclockwise so that these ends would be adjacent each other and overlaying the central portion of the pad.
  • the porous sheet is on the inside of the fold and the stiffer non-porous backing sheet 14 is on the outside of the fold and placed in tension rather than in compression which would occur if the pads were folded oppositely so that the stiffer backing sheet would be on the inside of the folds.
  • the fold could be made on a center line which is not shown but would be centered between lines 16 and 17.
  • FIGURE 10 is another sanitary pad style having a porous sheet 13 on one face and a fluid impermeable backing sheet 14 on the bottom side. This larger and thicker pad is usually folded only on one line such as the one marked 20.
  • Pads 11 are fed to the turning device by means of a known type of conveyor 25. Pads 11 are retained on belt 29 by a closed loop belt 30 which runs on pulleys 31 and 32. The pads 11 are advanced along belt 29 to the pad pickup station wherein they are put in interfacing relation with the first in a group of orbiting vacuum shoes such as the one marked 33.
  • the pad turner 10 on which the vacuum shoes 33 are carried is assumed to be rotating counterclockwise as viewed in FIGURE 1.
  • the successive pads being fed into the pad turner for being turned 90° are carried around on the shoes 33 until reaching a vacuum drum 15 at a release station which drum attracts the pad from the shoe that is in proximity with the vacuum drum at a time when the vacuum which is applied by the shoe is relieved.
  • the shoe After the vacuum shoe which has just picked up a pad from the conveyer belt 29 orbits away from the belt, the shoe begins to rotate about a radial axis so that finally, by the time the shoe reaches the vacuum drum 15, it has turned the pad 90° about an axis which is perpendicular to the plane of the pad. It is the porous faces 13 of the pads that interface with the shoes.
  • the non-porous backing sheet 14 of the pads is then faced outwardly or away from the shoe that carries it.
  • the non-porous back sheet 14 of the pad interfaces with the drum and the porous front sheet 13 is presented upwardly and away from the vacuum drum.
  • the pads are picked off of the vacuum drum 15 by the lugs 38 on a closed loop conveyor chain 39 as will be discussed in more detail later.
  • each vacuum shoe 33 is supported on a radially extending axially bored shaft 40.
  • Each shaft 40 extends from a mechanism support member in the form of a housing 41 which contains the mechanism for turning the shoes 90° as they orbit from the pad pickup station on infeed conveyor belt 29 to the pad transfer station where the shoes become contiguous to the vacuum drum 15.
  • a mechanism support member in the form of a housing 41 which contains the mechanism for turning the shoes 90° as they orbit from the pad pickup station on infeed conveyor belt 29 to the pad transfer station where the shoes become contiguous to the vacuum drum 15.
  • the shoes 33 are quickly turned again through an angle of 90° so they are traveling lengthwise again as they continue their orbiting motion toward the pickup station.
  • the upper part of the orbital path of the vacuum pickup shoes 33 is covered by a guard 43 in FIGURE 1.
  • the device comprises a rotor constituted by a drum which is generally designated by the numeral 50 and is comprised of a base or end plate 51 and an axially extending wall 52 which has a plurality of axially extending circumferentially spaced apart slots 53 through which the hollow vacuum conducting shafts 40 which carry the vacuum shoes 33 extend.
  • a rotor constituted by a drum which is generally designated by the numeral 50 and is comprised of a base or end plate 51 and an axially extending wall 52 which has a plurality of axially extending circumferentially spaced apart slots 53 through which the hollow vacuum conducting shafts 40 which carry the vacuum shoes 33 extend.
  • the curved face of the shoe is provided with a plurality of holes 54 which provide for the pad being drawn against the face of the shoe by vacuum applied through hollow shafts 40.
  • FIGURE 2 shows especially clearly how axially shafts 40 are journaled in bushings 55 and 56 which are mounted in support members which form housing 41.
  • the support members or housing 41 members are fastened to base plate 51 of the drum and to the axially extending side walls 52 thereof.
  • Typical axially bored vacuum conducting shaft 40 in the upper part of FIGURE 2 has a swivel joint 58 connected to it.
  • the base plate 51 of the drum has a vacuum port 59 associated with each one of the shaft turning mechanisms for allowing the swivel coupling 58 to be coupled to a vacuum channel 60 in a vacuum platen 61 which will be described in detail shortly hereinafter.
  • the vacuum port 59 has a nipple 62 extending from it to provide for making a connection by means of the previously mentioned flexible tube 42, shown in phantom lines, to swivel joint 58.
  • the vacuum is propagated through bored shaft 40 to the holes 54 in the face of the pickup vacuum shoe 33.
  • a pinion gear 64 is fastened onto hollow shaft 40.
  • Pinion gear 64 is meshed with a drive gear 65.
  • the drive gear is fastened to a shaft 66 which is journaled in two bushings 72 and 73 which are fixed in drive mechanism support housing 57.
  • a cam follower crank arm 68 is fastened to the shaft 66 and a cam follower roller 69 is mounted to the arm.
  • the cam follower roller of each of the shoe turning mechanisms resides in the groove 70 of a stationary cam 71.
  • a vertical part 75 of the machine frame has a bracket 76 bolted to it.
  • a bracket plate 77 is fastened to bracket 76 to provide for mounting a stationary closure plate 78 adjacent the open end of rotating drum 50.
  • Plate 78 is mounted by means of machine screws 79.
  • Bracket 80 has the stationary cam 71 mounted to it by means of machine screws 81.
  • the drive shaft for turning the drum 50 for orbiting and turning the vacuum shoes 33 is designated generally by the reference numeral 82.
  • the outboard end of the shaft 82 is journaled in a pillow block 83.
  • the opposite end of the shaft is journaled in a pair of ball bearings 84 whose outer races are fixed in a bore 85 in the center of stationary cam 71.
  • a collar 86 is keyed onto shaft 82.
  • Several screws, such as the one marked 87 pass through base plate 51 of the drum and are threaded into holes in the flange of the collar 86 so that when the shaft 82 is driven rotationally, the collar rotates and thereby causes the base plate 51 and everything carried on it to rotate about the axis of shaft 82.
  • a pulley 89 is fastened to shaft 82 and a belt 90 running on the pulley constitutes the power input to the pad turning device.
  • FIGURES 2 and 3 show how vacuum is conducted to the internal chambers of curved face shoes 33.
  • a mounting plate 95 is mounted to a fixed channel member 96 of the machine frame by way of a plurality of machine screws such as the ones marked 97 and 98.
  • the guard 43 is also mounted to channel 96 by way of machine screws such as the one marked 99.
  • Mounting plate 95 carries a bearing block 100 which is joined to the mounting plate by means of screws 101.
  • a plurality of screws 102 are free to slide through clearance holes 103 in mounting plate 95. Separate ends of screws 102 are turned into corresponding threaded holes in vacuum platen 61.
  • a coil spring 104 surrounds each machine screw 102 and is interposed between mounting plate 95 and vacuum platen 61. As a result of this construction, the vacuum platen is pressed by the springs into essentially leak proof interfacing relationship with the smooth side of base plate 51 which contains the vacuum ports 59 that are affiliated with each shoe turning mechanism.
  • FIGURE 3 shows the face of vacuum platen 61.
  • the vacuum platen has a vacuum duct or groove 60 formed in it.
  • an elbow 105 that connects to the back side of the vacuum platen for creating a vacuum in groove 60. Vacuum is drawn in the direction of arrow 106 from a vacuum source, not shown, to which elbow 105 is connected.
  • Elbow 105 is connected to the back of vacuum platen 61 in FIGURE 3 in alignment with the lower end 106 of groove 60 so the entire length of the groove is always under vacuum.
  • the vacuum port 59 in the base plate 51 associated with that particular shoe should line up with the lower end 106 in the vacuum groove to thereby initiate application of vacuum to the shoe. Vacuum is maintained as long as the port 59 follows along groove 60 during which time the shoe is turned by the cam and gears through 90° to change the orientation of the pad relative to its line of movement.
  • FIGURE 6 shows the condition of a typical mechanism for rotating a vacuum shoe 33 at a time when the vacuum port 59 for the particular shoe has run onto the ungrooved flat part 108 of the vacuum platen 61 and the shoe 33 is on its way to the pickup station where it meets a pad 11 on the infeed conveyor.
  • the cam follower 69 is running in a straight portion of the cam groove 70 so the cam follower crank arm 63 does not swing nor does the pinion 64 turn so that shoe 33 continues to orbit along a line coincident with its long axis.
  • FIGURE 7 illustrates the condition of the shoe turning mechanism after the cam follower 69 has run into that part of the cam groove 70 which is offset toward the rotational axis of the cam follower shaft 67 by an amount indicated by the arrow headed line marked 109.
  • the result of this is to swing the cam follower crank arm 63 sufficiently to impart a 90° turn to the shoe 33.
  • This substantial turning angle imparted to the shoe 33 is possible, even though the offset 109 is relatively small, by reason of the ratio of the drive gear 65 to the pinion 64.
  • the ratio of the gear 65 to the pinion 64 in an actual embodiment is 2:1.
  • FIGURE 1 This figure shows a part of the machine frame 115 to which a shaft 116 is mounted for rotation in bearings. These bearings 116A and 116B are visible in FIGURE 4.
  • the power input to the shaft 116 is omitted in FIGURE 1.
  • the shaft has a pulley 117 fastened to it and the pulley drives a belt 118 which in turn drives another pulley 119 on the shaft 120 on which the vacuum drum 15 is supported for rotation therewith.
  • brackets 121 and 122 there are stationarily mounted brackets 121 and 122, only the former being visible in FIGURE 1.
  • Bracket 121 has a shaft 123 journaled in it and the other bracket 122 has a shaft 125 journaled in it as shown in FIGURE 4.
  • Sprockets 150 and 151 are fastened to shafts 123 and 125, respectively. These are idler sprockets for the closed loop conveyor 39.
  • the dogs 38 on the conveyor belt pick the pads 11 off the vacuum drum 15 and positively push the pads 11 to the right in FIGURE 1 where they are taken off at the end of the conveyor at which the conveyor drive pulley is located. After leaving conveyor belt 39, the pads are usually delivered to a folding machine and after that to a packaging machine, neither of the machines being shown.
  • FIGURE 4 there is a pulley 126 fastened to shaft 116.
  • This pulley is driven by a belt 127 which is the power input to the vacuum drum 15.
  • Located above shaft 116 is a stationary cylindrical rod 128 which contains an axial bore 129.
  • the right end 130 of rod 128 is adapted for being coupled to a vacuum source, not shown.
  • the rod 128 is supported fixedly in a bracket 131 which is mounted to part of the machine frame 132.
  • the vacuum drum 15 is comprised of two parts, a stationary disk 133 and a rotating cup-like part 141.
  • Disk 133 is fastened to stationary rod 128.
  • the disk has an integral central hub 134 in which there is an angulated duct 135 through which vacuum is communicated from the bore 129 in rod 128 to the space 136 which is contiguous with stationary disk 133.
  • the outer race 137 of a ball bearing is fixed in stationary hub 134.
  • One end 138 of a rotationally driven shaft 120 fits into the inner race 139 of the ball bearing.
  • the other end of shaft 120 is journaled in a pillow block 140 which is on a post 115 constituting part of the machine frame.
  • shaft 120 has a pulley 119 on it which is driven on a belt 118 which engages with a pulley 117 that is fastened to power input shaft 116.
  • Rotary shaft 120 has the rotatable part 141 of vacuum drum 15 fastened to it.
  • Part 141 has an axially extending periphery 142 which contains a plurality of small suction holes 143.
  • the holes 143 are in groups which arrive in alignment with the pad on the shoe from which the pad is to be taken from the shoe from the vacuum drum 15.
  • a major part 144 of the stationary disk 141 is solid so it does not provide a vacuum space and seals off all of the groups of small vacuum holes 143 except the group that is lined up with the shoe from which a turned pad is to be taken by the vacuum drum.
  • the rotationally driven part 141 of the vacuum drum fits onto the stationary part with a small clearance gap 145 between them so that the air leaking into the vacuum chamber 136 is minimized.
  • Collar 146 keyed onto the rotatable shaft 120.
  • Collar 146 has a flange portion 147 which has holes through which a plurality of machine screws 148 fit. These machine screws are threaded into the rotatable part 141 of the vacuum drum so the part rotates at the angular speed of shaft 120.
  • FIGURE 4 there are idler sprockets 150 and 151 on shafts 123 and 125, respectively.
  • One of the sprockets 151 is depicted in FIGURE 5. It is shown engaged with the conveyor 39.
  • This conveyor is made of flexible urethane material and has a plurality of sprocket engaging teeth extending from one side and dogs or lugs 38 extending from the opposite side.
  • the vacuum drum 15 turns between the two laterally spaced apart sprockets 150 and 151 so that when the lugs 38 come around to the top of the sprockets they can pick the pads off of the vacuum drum and continue their journey to the pad folder which was previously mentioned but is not shown.
  • the bracket 121 in which the shaft 123 for sprocket 150 is journaled contains ball bearings such as the one marked 152 which allows the shaft 120 to rotate in bracket 121.
  • the bracket itself is supported against rotation on a part 153 of the machine frame to which the bracket is bolted by means of bolts 154.
  • bracket 122 for shaft 125 is simply clamped to stationary rod 128 by means of set screws 155 and some other stabilizing means which are not shown in FIGURE 4.
  • a new pad turner 10 which is distinguished by its high speed operation, being capable of picking up, turning through an angle of 90° and releasing at least 500 pads per minute.
  • the vacuum pickup shoes 33 used are oblong and are adapted for attracting and holding pads which are as long or even slightly longer than the length of the shoes. Moreover, they can handle pads which are substantially shorter than their length. In the latter case the suction holes in shoes 33 which would be left exposed by the short pads are simply covered with self-adhering tape so vacuum leaks are avoided.
  • the new pad turner can handle the longest and shortest sanitary pads which any manufacturer is likely to consider without requiring any exchange or adjustment of parts.

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  1. Un dispositif pour faire tourner une série d'articles telles des serviettes hygiéniques (11) qui présentent des axes latéraux et longitudinaux et sont transportées le long de la ligne de l'un des axes vers un poste de ramassage de serviettes hygiéniques, après quoi les serviettes hygiéniques (11) sont tournées sur un axe perpendiculaire auxdits axes tout en se déplaçant vers un poste de transfert de serviettes hygiéniques, ledit dispositif étant positionné à proximité du poste de ramassage et comprenant: un arbre primaire entraîné par rotation (82);
    un membre à tambour (50) ayant une plaque d'appui (51) fixée audit arbre entrainé (82) pour tourner avec celui-ci et une paroi cylindrique (52) fixée sur la plaque d'appui (51) concentrique par rapport à l'axe de l'arbre entraîné (82); et
    une pluralité d'éléments porteurs (41) arrangés dans ledit membre à tambour (50) suivant un rapport uniforme et espacés circonférentiellement;
    CARACTERISE EN CE QU'il se compose aussi de:
    un arbre conducteur de vide (40) qui présente un alésage axial, dont le tourillon est monté sur chaque élément porteur (41) pour la rotation autour d'un axe qui se projette radialement du membre à tambour (50), une extrémité dudit arbre conducteur de vide (40) se projetant radialement à l'extérieur du membre à tambour (50) et l'autre extrémité se projetant radialement à l'intérieur du membre à tambour;
    un patin de ramassage de serviette hygiénique par aspiration (33) monté à l'extrémité de chaque arbre conducteur de vide à alésage axial (40) qui se projette radialement à l'extérieur du membre à tambour (50), ledit patin (33) ayant une caisse d'air d'aspiration interne, qui est en communication avec l'alésage de l'arbre;
    des moyens (58, 42) pour accoupler l'extrémité de chacun desdits arbres conducteurs de vide (40) qui se projette radialement à l'intérieur dudit membre à tambour (50) à une source de vide;
    des moyens de contre-cames (68, 69) sur chaque élément porteur (41) et des moyens (64, 65) sur ledit élément porteur accouplant lesdits moyens de contre-cames à l'arbre conducteur de vide à alésage axial (40) pour tourner l'arbre et le patin (33) monté dessus au travers d'un angle autour de l'axe de l'arbre; et
    une came stationnaire (71) avec laquelle lesdits moyens de contre-cames (69) sont opérativement engagés, la rotation dudit membre à tambour (50) ayant pour résultat la commande desdits moyens de contre-cames (69) et la rotation dudit patin (33) qui commence quand le patin s'éloigne dudit poste de ramassage et se termine au moins au moment où le patin atteint le poste de transfert de serviettes hygiéniques.
  2. Un dispositif de rotation de serviettes hygiéniques suivant la revendication 1 comprenant:
    une platine aspirante stationnaire (61) ayant une surface planaire (108) supportée dans une relation d'interface avec ladite plaque d'appui (51) du membre à tambour (50), ladite surface planaire (108) contenant une rainure arquée (60) concentrique par rapport à et partiellement encerclant ledit axe de rotation du membre à tambour (50) et la rainure ayant un port (105) de communication avec la source de vide;
    ladite plaque d'appui (51) du membre à tambour (50) présentant une pluralité de ports (59) espacés équianglement circonférentiellement par rapport à l'axe du membre à tambour, l'espacement angulaire des ports (59) correspondant à l'espacement angulaire des arbres conducteurs de vide (40) et des patins (33) sur le membre à tambour (50);
    lesdits ports (59) sur ladite plaque d'appui (51) du membre à tambour étant positionnés afin qu'ils passent successivement sur la rainure (60) quand leurs patins respectifs (33) arrivent au poste de ramassage de serviettes hygiéniques pour faciliter le ramassage d'une serviette hygiénique (11) sous l'influence de l'aspiration et passent la rainure (60) pour retirer le vide des patins (33) et lâcher les serviettes hygiéniques (11) des patins quand les patins arrivent successivement audit poste de transfert de serviettes hygiéniques.
  3. Un dispositif de rotation de serviettes hygiéniques suivant la revendication 1 ou la revendication 2, où ledit moyen pour accoupler lesdits moyens de contre-cames (68, 69) auxdits arbres conducteurs de vide à alésage axial (40) pour les patins d'aspiration (33) est composé de:
    un arbre (66) dont le tourillon pour la rotation est monté sur les éléments porteurs respectifs (41) et un premier engrenage (65) fixé sur ledit arbre:
    une second engrenage (64) fixé sur ledit arbre conducteur de vide à alésage axial, les premiers et seconds engrenages étant engrenés;
    lesdits moyens de contre-cames comprenant un bras de manivelle (68) se projetant radialement de l'arbre sur lequel ledit premier engrenage (65) est fixé et un rouleau de contre-came (69) monté sur l'élément du bras (68);
    ladite came stationnaire (71) ayant une rainure de came (70) encerclant la came et ledit rouleau (69) étant engagé dans la rainure (70), une partie de ladite rainure étant décalée latéralement du reste de la rainure afin que le bras de manivelle (68) oscille et fasse tourner les engrenages (64, 65) et l'arbre (40) ayant le patin d'aspiration (33) sur lui en réaction du bras de manivelle (68) et de la contre-came (69) en mouvement après la rainure de came (70) causée par la rotation dudit élément à tambour (50).
  4. Un dispositif de rotation de serviettes hygiéniques suivant la revendication 3, où le rapport du diamètre du cercle primitif du premier engrenage (65) et du diamètre du cercle primitif du second engrenage (64) est de 2:1.
  5. Un dispositif de rotation de serviettes hygiéniques suivant toute revendication précédente comprenant:
    un support fixe (76) se projetant dans ledit membre à tambour (50), ladite came (71) étant montée sur ledit support (76);
    des moyens de paliers (84) dans ladite came (71), ledit arbre primaire de puissance entraîné par rotation (82) ayant une extrémité supportée pour la rotation par les moyens de paliers (84) et un support de palier (83) ayant un moyen de palier déplacé axialement par rapport aux moyens de paliers (84) dans la came (71) pour supporter plus encore ledit arbre primaire de puissance entraîné (82).
  6. Un dispositif de rotation de serviettes hygiéniques suivant la revendication 2 en combinaison avec un appareil pour retirer les serviettes hygiéniques (11) desdits patins (33) comprenant:
    un tambour de vide entraîné par rotation (15) positionné au niveau dudit poste de transfert de serviettes hygiéniques et substantiellement tangentiel au parcours orbital suivi par lesdits patins de ramassage de serviette hygiénique par aspiration (33), ledit tambour de vide (15) tournant autour d'un axe parallèle à l'axe de rotation dudit membre à tambour (50) qui porte lesdits patins (33);
    des moyens (129, 135) pour produire du vide dans ledit tambour de vide (15), ledit tambour ayant une paroi périphérique (142) contenant une pluralité d'orifices (143) pour développer un vide sur la surface de ladite paroi (142) pour attirer les serviettes hygiéniques (11) desdits patins (33) au poste de transfert des serviettes hygiéniques de manière simultanée avec le retrait du vide des patins (33).
  7. Une combinaison suivant la réclamation 6 où ledit appareil de retrait des serviettes hygiéniques (11) desdits patins d'aspiration (33) comprend aussi:
    un arbre entraîné par rotation (120) ayant une extrémité (138);
    une tige (128) fixée contre la rotation et arrangée en alignement par rapport à l'axe dudit arbre entraîné par rotation (120) et dans la relation extrémité contre extrémité par rapport à l'arbre entraîné par rotation;
    ledit tambour de vide (15) comprenant deux parties principales, l'une qui est un membre circulaire rotatif (141) fixé audit arbre entraîné par rotation (120) pour tourner avec celui-ci et à la paroi périphérique (142) se projetant axialement dudit membre circulaire (141);
    l'autre partie dudit tambour (15) étant un membre circulaire stationnaire (133) fixé sur ladite tige (128) et ayant un diamètre extérieur légèrement inférieur au diamètre intérieur dudit membre circulaire rotatif (141) pour montage avec un faible espace (145) dans ledit intérieur circulaire du membre circulaire rotatif (141) pour définir une caisse d'air d'aspiration (136) en conjonction avec ledit membre circulaire stationnaire (133), ledit membre circulaire stationnaire ayant un port de vide (135) pour attirer un vide dans ladite caisse (136) et
    un palier (137, 139) disposé centralement par rapport audit membre circulaire stationnaire (133) et interposé entre ledit membre circulaire stationnaire et ladite extrémité (138) de l'arbre entraîné par rotation (120).
  8. L'appareil suivant la réclamation 7, où ladite tige (128) présente un alésage se projetant sur la longueur (129) raccordé sur ledit port de vide (135) prêt d'une extrémité et adapté à l'autre extrémité (130) pour raccordement sur une source de vide.
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